Patrick McGrath

Patrick McGrath is a master of the modern psychological thriller, as previous books like Spider and Asylum attest. Here he discusses his latest, Port Mungo about a modern-day, British Gaugin and artist wife who relinquish the contemporary art scene for the even more hothouse atmosphere of Honduras. Yes, it has a fabulous nude scene. Hear McGrath tell all as host Charles Ruas peers into the novelist's unrelentingly Gothic psyche.

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Host Charles Ruas in conversation with contemporary writers and poets, continuing a stream of intelligent discussion dating back to his legendary days at WBAI Pacifica Radio in New York in the seventies. Ruas is the author of Conversations with American Writers, a Fulbright scholar, and a distinguished French translator. His writing has frequently appeared in both ARTNews and Art in America. His other Clocktower-produced program is Historic Audio From the Archives of Charles Ruas and is one of the most brilliant and extensive collections of historic audio in our archive.